Safety appliance for lanterns



A June 8,1926. 7 1,588,347-

v c L. ENNIS SAFETY APPLIANCE FOR LANTERNS Filed June 2, 1924 INVENTORC. 1.. Ennis.

ATTORNEY I Patented June 8, 1926.

COMMIE L. ENNIS OF BOYKINS, VIRGINIA.

SAFETY APPLIANCE FOR LANTERNS.

Application filed June 2,

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in safetyappliances for use in connection with crossing lamps, particularlyemployed in railroading, and the invention has for its object to providemeans by which the red or danger signal railroad lamp can be usedwithout the necessity of special construction and to provide means thatwill permit the red light to be seen by pedestrians or vehicular traflicwhich may be approaching the railroad crossing, while shielding thelight from the engineer or trainmens vision when the train isapproaching the crossing, thus preventing the train crew from becomingconfused as to signals. r

My invention consists in providing a tubular section and stamping fromit pairs of wings which are bent radially and serve as blinds in twodirections, allowing the light to be seen from two directions at anglesof ninety degrees from the blind, or in other words permitting the redlight to be seen by those approaching the railroad crossing by the roadwhile shieldingthe light against the vision of the engineer or traincrew approaching the crossing on the track.

The invention also provides a means for holding the attachment on thebase of an ordinary railroad lamp, thereby not interfering with themanipulations of the lamp itself when it is desired to clean it or tolight or extinguish it.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective View illustrating my inventionapplied to the lamp.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of my attachment per se.

Figure 3 is an inverted plan View of the same showing the resting lugsby which the attachment is held in place on the railroad lam It? thedrawings, 1 represents the cylindrical section which may be made of anordinary piece of galvanized iron stove pipe and from which is stamped,on two sides, the ears or blinds 22, the latter being fiattened and bentto lie inplanes intersecting 1924. Serial No. 717,437.

the axis of the cylindrical section. The

stamping of the blinds 22provides openings 3 in alignment with eachother and these openings, when the attachment is on the lamp, arelocated in a direction at right angles to the track so that the lamp maybe viewed by those approaching the railroad crossing while the light isshielded from the view of the engineer or firemen on the approachingtrain.

At the bottom the cylindrical section has lugs 4: stamped therefrom andbent inwarcv ly to rest on the flange of the lamp 6, mus leaving thelamp top 7 free to be raised or lowered as may be desired in order toclean the lamp or to light or extinguish it.

The cylindrical. section 1 if made from galvanized iron may be made fromflat sheet metal and bent into the form of a cvlinder with the edgesoverlapping, as at 8, and riveted together as at 9.

It will be seen from the foregoing taken in connection with theaccompanying drawing, that myinvention is of a simple and effectiveconstruction, can be easily and cheaply manufactured, readily placed inposition on the ordinary railroad lamp and will not interfere with thenormal operation of the lamp itself.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawing,

it thought that the complete construction,

operation and advantages-of my. invention will be clear to those skilledin the art.

' 'lfVhat I claim is In combination with a railroad crossing lamp, of atubular casing open top and bottom and adapted to be set over the lamp,said casing having lugs at the bottom servingas feet to rest on the baseflange of the lamp, blinds stamped from the casing on two sides and bentto lie in planes intersecting the axis of the casing, thereby presentingdiametrically opposite light openings and dia metrically oppositeblinds, the latter being located ninety degrees from the former,substantially as shown and described.

' COMMIE L. ENNIS.

